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Andrew Hyde
andrewhy.de · Personal blog · on HN since 2009
Andrew Hyde, a startup community organizer, writes about extreme minimalism, frugal living, startup resumes, and travel.
What HN saysHN links it for his minimalism project of owning 39 things and his startup resumes post; the author himself joined the discussion.
23HN people shared it
9linked it in comments
19stories submitted
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Most-shared posts
- 1Amazon Digital Markup: 129,000%2 people · 241 points · first shared 2012 · 138 comments on HN
- 2Extreme Minimalism: this guy owns just 15 things2 people · 186 points · first shared 2011 · 189 comments on HN
- 3How to Live (Comfortably) on $36 a Month for Food2 people · 4 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 4Resumes for Startups (2010)2 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 5Minimalism project update 39 things2 people · first shared 2012
- 6Percent of americans with passports2 people · first shared 2013
- 7Committing Location Based Service Suicide1 people · 44 points · first shared 2010 · 28 comments on HN
- 8Washington Post Style Guide Now Includes “Startup” as A Word1 people · 6 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 9Why do Kindle images look so bad?1 people · 6 points · first shared 2013 · 2 comments on HN
- 10Posterous Lets You Import Data from Dying Network Posterous1 people · 6 points · first shared 2010 · 1 comments on HN
- 11Owning 15 things: 7 months in1 people · 5 points · first shared 2011 · 1 comments on HN
- 12iPad can be your only computer - until things go wrong1 people · 3 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 13Boulder Is For Startups1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 14Why I don’t organize many tech events1 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 15Full Circle ( Startup Weekend, Startup Week and TechStars)1 people · 1 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
jackgolding · 2017-04-04
Lots of sales offices in Melb (Google, LinkedIn...)
Losing Startcon to Sydney was one of my top reasons other than that international startups (particularly fintech) seem to gravitate towards Sydney.
Melbourne does have some noticeable startups - Carsales.com.au, realestate.com.au, envato, seek but I think there isn't enough done to phrase them. If you are in Melbourne however I'd recommend coming a Inspire9 pitch night or a SiliconBeach meetup. Finally Andrew Hyde's writing speaks of some of the strengths in Melbourne http://andrewhy.de/why-your-startup-should-visit-melbourne/
andrewhyde · 2012-01-16
OP here. I've updated the items I own list (now 39!) and written a bit more about it here. http://andrewhy.de/minimalism-project-update-39-things/
The linked post up top is from May. Lots has changed since then.
Great discussion here. Always interesting how people look at the project.
mwhite · 2012-04-30
Also worth reading: http://andrewhy.de/resumes-for-startups/
slipwalker · 2018-07-02
You didn't mention your specific skills, but no matter what, start building a decent profile on linkedin and a portfolio ( take projects on upwork, fiverr, toptal, crossover... whatever ) right now. Heck, write a "how to" tutorial on medium....
Also look for a roommate, to decrease your fixed costs without breaking the lease. This could give you some ideas too: https://andrewhy.de/how-to-live-comfortably-on-36-a-month-for-food/
Buy a second hand bicycle, and ditch uber... and, as soon as you can afford, go see a doctor !
cylinder714 · 2016-10-19
I think it's about Andrew Hyde: http://andrewhy.de/minimalism-project-update-39-things/
zurn · 2015-04-13
Americans rarely left the country until very recently.
"Valid U.S. Passports in 2012 is 113,431,943 (36%). In 2002 it was 55,169,571 (19%). In 1992 it was 17,950,578 (7%). " (http://andrewhy.de/percent-of-americans-with-passports/)
alexeisadeski3 · 2013-11-19
>The major flaw there is that most americans will never want a visa anyway, so it ends up being a largely invisible protest on the part of the other countries.
Most Americans don't even have passports! [1]
By punishing the tiny fraction of Americans visiting Brazil or China, these countries are simply shooting themselves in the foot.
It's a mostly invisible protest - and the only people witnessing said protest are the ones who already like you.
[1] http://andrewhy.de/percent-of-americans-with-passports/
brazzy · 2013-03-27
> How does Amazon accomplish their free 3G with the Kindle and why aren't they selling this service?
It's not "free 3G", it's "free ebook shop browsing and delivery via 3G" - relatively small files, and Amazon directly profits from each one. Thus they can afford to pay for it, and they're big enough to negotiate reasonable prices. But note that it's very limited: audio books are not delivered via 3G, nor are files sent in by the user for conversion (actually I believe you can pay for that service). And for their 70% royalty option, delivery is actually charged to the author at 15 cents per MB: http://andrewhy.de/amazons-markup-of-digital-delivery-to-indie-authors…
paulgerhardt · 2009-12-22
Andy Baio did this last year with the additional task of including "why do you turk?"
http://waxy.org/2008/11/the_faces_of_mechanical_turk/
Interesting to see how the demographic has shifted in that time period.
Regarding the bit about crowd-sourcing ideas; Andrew Hyde used Turk to solicit startup-ideas:
http://andrewhy.de/using-mechanical-turk-for-ideas/